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How can a student attend an online exam?

Created by: Nidheesh Narayanan

Modified on: Thu, 24 Nov, 2016 at 3:09 PM

An exam will be made accessible to students only during the set
dates. Before starting the exam, the student will see the following
screen which will include the name of the exam, the time duration,
and the minimum percentage required to pass.

When the student clicks the Start Exam button, the exam will
begin in a separate window as seen in the image below.

Once the exam begins, the student cannot pause or stop the exam. A
countdown timer is shown in the top right. When the timer runs out,
the exam is submitted automatically with whatever answers the student
has filled in.

For exams with many questions, each page will have five questions.
Students can jump to any page using the pagination links at the
bottom of a page.

Students can skip a question and later come back to the related page
and attempt the question.

One of the main disadvantages for online exams is that the potential
for cheating is probably greater than paper based exams. To help
restrict students from cheating, the shortcut keys for copy and paste
have been disabled.